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Monologues

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“I used to date a lot of guys who needed taking care of, and I was never very good at it. I didn’t take chicken soup when they were sick or nod emphatically when they said things like, 'I’m a better monologuist than Eric Bogosian, don’t you think?’”

“If confirmed, he will take over an institution where, at least in recent years, politics sometimes had no end. The department became fodder for late-night TV monologues in 2007 when former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his staff flimflammed their way through congressional hearings about the partisan firings of eight U.S. attorneys. Those independent prosecutors were let go for failing to be—in the parlance of Gonzales' underage underlings—'loyal Bushies.' More than a dozen officials resigned in the wake of that scandal.”

“Maybe this movie's curious emptiness has to do precisely with the actors' appeal, their matinee-scale beauty and charisma. Yates' novel used implied interior monologue—what Flaubert called 'free indirect style'—to indicate the vast gulf between how April and Frank thought of themselves (as thwarted bohemians) and what they really were (fearful middle-aged suburbanites). Without that layer of built-in irony, the Wheelers' protestations that they're too good for the life they're trapped in seem straightforwardly true, and what should be a bleak social satire instead reads as a banal melodrama.”

“Tarantino movies are known for two kinds of verbal expulsions: the stem-winding monologue (Samuel L. Jackson's Old Testament shtick in Pulp Fiction) and the micro-observational tangent (Steve Buscemi's anti-tipping tirade in Reservoir Dogs)."

"But many familiar bits will remain. Leno will still do his monologue at the top of each show. And he'll close with his famous 'Jaywalking' or headline segments, which will lead directly into local news."

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